Identity and Access Management (IAM) is still largely deployed on-premise rather than in the cloud, despite this solution is growing in relevance. Many players — such as Dell, IBM, NetIQ and Oracle — are not even directly offering cloud IAM services. Instead, they sell IAM software, which can be hosted by a customer or a SaaS provider in their own data centres and deployed as a private cloud solution. There is a clear cus...

A SSO solution may reduce IT time and costs — Most cloud SSO providers offer authentication services as part of a solution, not as a standalone offer — Competition intensifies in the SSO niche.

Stuttgart, Germany — Cloud Single Sign On (SSO) services are a fairly recent innovation in Identity and Access Management (IAM). While SSO in itself has been around for a while as an on-premise solution, many cloud SSO p...